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This month we’re going to take a deep dive into the melee classes in Revenge of the Firstborn. The wizards have their flashy spells, but when they run out of juice, it’s up to the frontliners to bring it home.

When someone thinks of a knight in shining armor, they’re thinking of the paladin, at least in D&D-inspired games. With his ability to Detect Evil at will, his immunity to fear and his smite evil ability, the paladin makes a formidable foe for the forces of evil. His Lay on Hands and Remove Disease abilities make him a strong protector for his allies as well.

Add in some limited spellcasting ability and the power to turn undead, and the paladin brings a broad array of skills to bear.

One of the paladin features that is often omitted from computer RPGs is the paladin’s mount, but with mounted combat featuring heavily in Revenge of the Firstborn, having the paladin’s mount in the game was a must. The paladin mount is a warhorse that levels up alongside him, becoming hardier and stronger as the paladin’s gains power. Additionally, any spells that the paladin cast on himself also affect the mount.

We touched on the mount’s improved survivability via improved hardiness in the form of extra hit dice, the mount also gains the ability to use its own saving throw, or its rider’s, whichever is better. At higher levels, a paladin's mount even gains spell resistance.

Some people hate the “goody two shoes” paladin and others love playing the idealistic hero. For those people, the paladins in Revenge of the Firstborn offers a lot to enjoy.

Depending on who you ask, the ranger has fallen on tough times in the latest version of D&D, but in 3.5e, the ranger brings a lot to the table, from the stealthy archer, raining death from afar, to the whirling tempest of steel, dual wielding weapons better than nearly any other class.

As a ranger levels up, he must choose one of the two paths – selecting either a combat style of archery or two weapon fighting. Each path comes with a handful of feats that are granted to the ranger, whether or not he would normally qualify for them via his character attributes.

As he levels up, he chooses a type of creature as his favored enemy. The ranger gains +2 damage to creatures of this type as well as a +2 bonus on many skills when used against favored enemies. As he levels up, a ranger gets to designate 5 different types of creatures as favored enemies.

The ranger also gets some limited spellcasting abilities, but the other class feature that really shines for rangers is their animal companion. In Revenge of the Firstborn, the ranger’s animal companion levels up alongside him, gaining Evasion, extra attacks, and the ability to benefit from spells the ranger casts on himself.

Currently, the ranger’s sole option for an animal companion is a wolf, although more may be added in the future. The wolf can be ordered to attack aggressively or to stay close and defend the ranger or another party member.

From Conan to Fafhrd to Wulfgar, the barbarian is a well-established fantasy archetype. The muscle-bound, gruff warrior who charges into battle wielding as large a weapon as possible.

Unlike any other class in D&D, the barbarian is as much who a person is as a character class. Wizard, fighter, and bard are professions, but the barbarian is defined as much by heritage and worldview as by skillset. Because of this, they cannot be of lawful alignment in D&D in general and Revenge of the Firstborn in particular.

The barbarian has the highest foot speed of any character class in the game. They have the Uncanny Dodge ability which means they're never flat-footed and cannot be flanked. They have bonuses to saves against traps and higher-level barbarians gain bonuses to their will saves, but the first things most people think of when they think of barbarians are Damage Reduction and Rage.

Starting at seventh level, a barbarian gains the ability to shrug off some of the damage from physical attacks. It starts off as one point of damage and increases to five at level nineteen.

The barbarian’s defining ability is his Rage. At first level, a barbarian may enter a Rage once per day. He gains the ability to do this as many as 6 times at level twenty. When he’s raging, a barbarian gains a bonus to his strength and constitution, which increases his hitpoints. He also gains a bonus to his will save. These all come at a cost of a -2 penalty to his armor class.

The fighter often gets short shrift in 3.5e-based games. In some people's eyes they pale next to the knight in shining armor that is the paladin, or the ranger, with his dual wielding abilities and skill with the bow, but the fighter, with all of its bonus feats, can be one of the most versatile classes in the game.

The ranger has his fancy auto-granted archery or two-weapon fighting feats, but fighters have available feats to be ready to take Manyshot at level six, just like a ranger, with his combat style. The fighter also probably has weapon focus: ranged as well by that point. Throw in weapon specialization and the fighter is arguably a better archer than the ranger. You can do a similar scenario focused on two-weapon fighting.

The fighter is also the most likely to have feats “to spare” to choose feats such as Improved Trip and Whirlwind Attack. These feats expand the options available to the fighter in combat. Improved Trip, for instance, grants a free attack on any target the fighter successfully trips. Whirlwind Attack allows a fighter to make a single attack against all targets that are in melee range.

Fighters also have the weapon specialization feat which increases the damage they do with their chosen class of weapon. Those of you who know the 3.5e rules well may raise an eyebrow at the phrase “class of weapon”. In the pen and paper rules, weapon specialization requires choosing a single type of weapon, such as a greataxe or longsword to specialize in. In Revenge of the Firstborn, fighters choose a class of weapon to specialize in, such as single-hand martial weapons or polearms. This is due to the fact that, in a tabletop campaign, a good dungeon master ensures that the fighter specializing in the scimitar will find a good scimitar now and then. The computer running the game cannot make this sort of assurance.

- An issue where the Material > Token exchange window would not open for players in some cases has been fixed.

- Excess accumulated store items now refund 10% Vcoin when discarded. This applies to all items purchased/obtained from V store.

- The chance to craft valuable equipment at crafting stations has been increased by an extra x2 for all tiers.

- The daily usage limit for the Prize Wheel has been increased from 2 to 3 based on player feedback.

- Permanent discounts have been applied to the prices of some old costume armor sets.

- Some translation errors have been fixed.

- Text shifting in some newly added interfaces has been fixed.

- Work has been done on the latency issue on the Asia server. In general, updates related to extra optimization and performance improvements will be made soon for all servers.

Made enemy pathfinding for side scrolling games, in a sweet character controller

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• Fixed an issue where combining the abilities of Blue Tengu and Infected Zombie caused infinite resurrection loops.

• Fixed an issue where skills could still be used during the boss HP reduction + slow-motion sequence.

• Fixed an issue where the position of the Frog Shopkeeper blocked the path and made it impossible to purchase the relic in the far back row.

• Enemy Skeleton: maximum number of living units adjusted from infinite → 9

• Relic Coffee: HP recovery effect increased

• Relic Strawberry Jam: HP recovery effect increased

• JRPG
  
• Rich CG content
  
• Classic command-based battle system
  
• Defeat enemies to steal and equip their skills.
  
• Original enemy graphics.

• JRPG
  
• Rich CG content
  
• Classic command-based battle system
  
• Defeat enemies to steal and equip their skills.
  
• Original enemy graphics.

• JRPG
  
• Rich CG content
  
• Classic command-based battle system
  
• Defeat enemies to steal and equip their skills.
  
• Original enemy graphics.

• JRPG
  
• Rich CG content
  
• Classic command-based battle system
  
• Defeat enemies to steal and equip their skills.
  
• Original enemy graphics.